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The Realist
Leon Hawkins spent his entire boyhood years growing up within the confines of an orphanage. All he ever wanted was to be an artist, but during the height of the Great Depression, he turned twenty-one and was required to leave the institution. Because of the Depression and because he came from a white father and a black mother, finding employment or any means of earning a living was unthinkable. He quickly learned how to survive on the streets and under a bridge with other homeless men. However, his unstoppable desire to draw and paint his observations and thoughts of the world around him drove Leon to an unexpected odyssey that lifted him above racial prejudices and other stumbling blocks. This changed his life as well as the lives of many others.
Silent Farm
After the Second World War, Patricia Basil, a clerk at the local bookstore in Chapel Hill North Carolina, was swept away with the ideals and promises of communism even though it was vigorously opposed by the university. She became deeply involved in its spread throughout the South and was eventually hunted by the FBI. As Patricia’s ideal world crumbled around her, she longed for the strength to abandon her naive dreams and find a way back home.
The Ridge Walker
Set in the 1940’s at a time when the mountains of North Carolina still harbored remote and isolated communities, The Ridge Walker explores the human drama of sacrifice, forgiveness, spirituality, and motherhood.
Jess Shew was the last Celtic medicine woman east of the Smokies. When one of her patients dies, Jess takes the dead woman’s child as her own. Jess is torn between her lifelong dedication to healing the Stumpy Ridge people, and her growing love for her adopted child.
Redbriar
Set in the mountains of North Carolina, Redbriar is a tale of murder and betrayal, of lost relationships and redemption.
Stuart is an artist who has been accused of murdering his wife, Sarah. The crime has estranged him from his daughter, Tad, and the story leads us on a journey of discovery of a father’s undying love for his daughter who is facing impossible odds against her.
Exhibition of the 'Song Bo Paintings'
SECOND EDITION
Exhibition of the ‘Song Bo Paintings,’ an historical fiction set in 1954 French Indo-China, about an American artist, John Hanson, assigned to a forgotten village in the Vietnamese Highlands.
The deep and sensitive relationship that developed between the young artist and a local woman named Mai changed his life forever. Through her insight, courage, strength, and love he was able to develop a passionate understanding of her people, their complex history, their desperate struggle against communism, and translated those feelings into his paintings.
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